We haven’t heard from former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad for a while, but he’s back in the news today with a whacked out pronouncement to a pro-Palestinian conference that equals or surpasses his other freakazoid statements: If US Could Create ‘Avatar’, It Could Fake 9/11 Attacks.

Malaysia’s former premier Mahathir Mohamad said on Wednesday there was “strong evidence” the US faked the September 11 terror attacks as an excuse to go to war against Muslims.

“There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything,’ Mahathir told the Conference for the Support of Al-Quds (Jerusalem), as quoted by local media.

That’s the Islamic version of the 9/11 Troof movement. But Mahathir’s other remarks are even worse. The former prime minister is not a Holocaust denier. He’s a Holocaust admirer.

The former premier also blamed Jews for hindering progress in US foreign policy. Voicing his disappointment that Barack Obama had not yet ended the war in Afghanistan or closed the US terror detention center at Guantanamo, he explained that “there are forces in the United States which prevent the president from doing some things. One of the forces is the Jewish lobby.”

Jews “had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettoes and periodically massacred. But still they remained, they thrived and they held whole governments to ransom,” Mahathir said.

“Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.”

(Hat tip: Jim A.)